Does anyone know, or can anyone guess, the business case for predictive text? On phone apps, it is often incredibly difficult to turn off. Why is that, do you think? (The examples I have recent experience with are Facebook and Outlook mobile apps.)
I would have thought that, for AI training purposes, they would want humans typing things and not just regurgitating canned responses. But apparently not?
I have none of that on my phone, just plain old keyboard.
But the reason it’s everywhere is it’s the new hot thing and every company in the world feels like they have to get on board now or they’ll be potentially left behind, can’t let anyone have a headstart. It’s incredibly dumb and shortsighted but since actually innovating in features is hard and AI is cheap to implement, that’s what every company goes for.
It’s not new, nor is it AI. Predictive text suggestions have been in Android for ages now.